Pine Level is a very small town located in the state of North Carolina. With a population of 2,277 people and just one neighborhood, Pine Level is the 304th largest community in North Carolina.
Unlike some towns, Pine Level isn’t mainly white- or blue-collar. Instead, the most prevalent occupations for people in Pine Level are a mix of both white- and blue-collar jobs. Overall, Pine Level is a town of sales and office workers, professionals, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Pine Level who work in management occupations (12.90%), office and administrative support (11.91%), and sales jobs (9.84%).
Also of interest is that Pine Level has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
Pine Level is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.
The education level of Pine Level citizens is a little higher than the average for US cities and towns: 23.57% of adults in Pine Level have at least a bachelor's degree.
The per capita income in Pine Level in 2022 was $26,676, which is lower middle income relative to North Carolina and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $106,704 for a family of four. However, Pine Level contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
Pine Level is an extremely ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Pine Level home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Pine Level residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Pine Level also has a sizeable Hispanic population (people of Hispanic origin can be of any race). People of Hispanic or Latino origin account for 16.55% of the town’s residents. Important ancestries of people in Pine Level include English, German, Irish, European, and Jamaican.
The most common language spoken in Pine Level is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and Polish.
Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Pine Level, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.
The neighborhood has a greater proportion of government workers living in it than 97.3% of the neighborhoods in America, according to NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis. This is a unique feature of this neighborhood, and one that shapes its character.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Welsh ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 4.6% of this neighborhood's residents have Welsh ancestry.
There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Pine Level are middle-income, making it a moderate income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 45.6% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 6.7% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 58.8% of America's neighborhoods.
The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.
In the neighborhood, 36.0% of the working population is employed in executive, management, and professional occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is manufacturing and laborer occupations, with 28.4% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (23.5%), and 15.1% in government jobs, whether they are in local, state, or federal positions.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 85.5% of households. Some people also speak Spanish (13.9%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Pine Level, NC, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as Mexican (15.7%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (10.0%), and residents who report German roots (6.1%), and some of the residents are also of Welsh ancestry (4.6%), along with some Irish ancestry residents (3.0%), among others.
Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (31.9% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.
Here most residents (85.1%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (7.2%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.